From the nursery and village school on to the work-house and state-prison, this principle is over and in all things to be before the eyes, present in the thoughts, warm on the heart.

Otherwise, God is insulted, while his image is despised and abused.

Yes, indeed, we remember that in carrying out the principle of self-government, multiplied embarrassments and obstructions grow out of wickedness on the one hand and passion on the other.

Such difficulties and obstacles we are far enough from overlooking.

But where are they to be found?
Are imbecility and wickedness, bad hearts and bad heads, confined to the bottom of society?
Alas, the weakest of the weak, and the desperately wicked, often occupy the high places of the earth, reducing every thing within their reach to subserviency to the foulest purposes.